<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I followed up on George's suggestion and published a detailed outline for the Latin America course.  It is getting some response on Facebook.  You can register at <a href="https://www.marietta.edu/ilr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.marietta.edu/ilr</a> if interested.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Here is the outline FYI:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">January 13 -</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The Latin American countries and how they differ from Anglo America.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The succession crisis in Bolivia as Evo Morales, the first president of indigenous origin, fights for a fourth term in office</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The first segment of the movie </span><span class="gmail-_4yxo gmail-_4yxp" style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;font-family:inherit">Central Station</span><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit"> about a young boy whose mother is killed in an accident. A jaded middle aged woman takes h<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit">im under her wing and they take off to find his father in the northeast.</span></span></li></ul><div class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">January 20 -</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The Argentine Paradox, why did a country that was as rich as Canada at the beginning of the 20th century, fall so far behind?</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Highlights from the work of Latin America’s Six Nobel Laureates in Literature.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The second segment of</span><span class="gmail-_4yxo gmail-_4yxp" style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;font-family:inherit"> Central Station</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">January 27</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Latin American Populism from Juan Domingo and Eva Peron in Argentina, to Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Is the US becoming more like Latin America?</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Roberto Burle Marx: the Brazilian who revolutionized landscape architecture.  Segment of a BBC video on Burle Marx</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Concluding segment of </span><span class="gmail-_4yxo gmail-_4yxp" style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;font-family:inherit">Central Station</span><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">.</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">February 3</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The “Car Wash” investigation and the globalization of Latin American corruption.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Segments from </span><span class="gmail-_4yxo gmail-_4yxp" style="font-weight:600;font-style:italic;font-family:inherit">The Mechanism</span><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">, a Brazilian teledrama about the prosecutors and judge who convicted Brazilian working class hero and President Lula da Silva for corruption.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Latin American poetry, including children’s poetry as well as highlights from the works of Pablo Neruda and others.  Video on Neruda.</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">February 10</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Latin American socialism from Cuba to Allende’s Chile to Venezuela today. Is Latin America where bad ideas go to die or have they been subverted?</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Mending the Urban Fabric with Geometry and Bamboo: New Developments in Latin American architecture</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Francesco Toledano, the Mexican artist who drew on his indigenous Zapotec heritage in his art and used his prestige to preserve the culture of his native Oaxaca</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">February 17 -</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Haiti: from the world’s only successful revolution by enslaved people, from 1791 to 1804, to the impoverished nation of today. What went wrong after the revolution that actually freed the slaves when the US did not.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Haitian Art: African, Indigenous American and European influences.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The Top 20 Most Groundbreaking Latin American Films.  Trailers and clips.</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">February 24 -</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The Northern Triangle of Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. What’s driving emigration to the US.</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Costa Rica and Nicaragua: why did reform succeed in one and revolution fail in the other</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">\More from the top 20 Latin American films</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_3dgx gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">March 2</span></div><ul class="gmail-_5a_q gmail-_5yj1" dir="ltr" style="list-style-position:initial;margin:0px 12px;padding:6px 0px 0px"><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">The youth uprising in Chile, despite economic growth and stable democratic institutions</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:3px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Cuba: transition to democracy or revolution forever?</span></li><li class="gmail-_2cuy gmail-_509q gmail-_2vxa" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;white-space:pre-wrap;list-style-type:disc;clear:both;line-height:18px;margin-left:20px;padding-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-_4yxo" style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Is Latin America approaching the U.S. model or is it the reverse?</span></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> <br></div></div>